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CAE Software for Detailed Design

AxCent®

Blade Geometry and Rapid Flow Analysis

AxCent® is used for detailed 3D geometric design and for rapid flow analysis of multistaged axial and radial turbomachinery through streamline curvature. AxCent employs powerful features for axial, mixed-flow, and radial geometries that can be combined to design almost any turbomachinery.

Blade Geometry

AxCent easily handles the most complex blade geometry. A partial list of blade design features include:

Blade stacking of 2D cross sections

Blade restaggering around an arbitrary axis

Bowed blading defined by hub-to-shroud bow profiles

Bowed or sculpted element with arbitrary number of mid-span sections

Variable tip clearance on either end of the blade

Flow cuts and radial trims

Swept leading/trailing edges

Multiple, offset, and independent splitter blades

Irregular blade/splitter configurations for noise reduction

Other design features include:

Parameterized volute geometry generation

Split duct geometry

Fillets with constant or variable radius and aspect ratio

Recent 3D features include:

Cutaway view allows real-time cross sections to be viewed as the design is edited

Flow analysis

AxCent includes several options for real-time interactive flow analysis:

Inviscid streamline curvature solvers, including Concepts NREC's Multi-Stream Tube Solver (MST), are recognized in the industry as the best for centrifugal pumps and compressors

MST puts the power of real-time analysis in your hands. It enables you to immediately visualize the consequences of design changes on velocity, temperature, and pressure. You can look at multiple iterations in seconds, rather than the hours necessary to export each design to CAD for CFD analysis.

Using MST, you can significantly reduce the overall design cycle time by providing an optimized iteration for validation, rather then the more traditional iterative process that requires a lot more back and forth.

Design before editing

Design after editing

And a number of CFD-based solvers:

Blade-to-blade is a powerful and rapid quasi-3D solver for quickly evaluating flow patterns across the channel

AxCent can be started from any Concepts NREC meanline program (once the geometry has been set up), and can link the AxCent geometry back to the meanline design to rerun the analysis and regenerate the performance maps. Additionally, using TurboOPT II, the AxCent geometry can be linked to an internal optimizer or to a third-party optimizer such as modeFRONTIER, Isight™, VisualDOC, and IOSO.

Customer-driven Improvement

AxCent has been continuously improved with annual releases since 1983. Nearly two hundred licenses shared by nearly four hundred users worldwide make AxCent the most mature and robust turbomachinery design software available today. Each year, the most requested features from Concepts NREC’s formal ballot process are incorporated into the new AxCent release.

Software Support

Our support staff in North America, Europe, and the Far East includes experienced turbomachinery designers. Our software maintenance plan, Agile Products Support (APS), features traditional software upgrades, a help line, and regular design reviews conducted by our engineering staff, who also teaches our renowned turbomachinery courses.

Documentation

Documentation features make AxCent easy to use and include comprehensive HTML HELP plus step-by-step tutorials. User guides for designing radial and axial machines include Designing Axial Machines With AxCent and Designing Radial Machines With AxCent. Both guides are available in print or in searchable PDF format.

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